Immigration, Integration and Mobility

Migration studies is an increasingly vital, but also increasingly crowded field, where the cacophony of voices threatens to drown out any clear message. The exception is found in this volume of beautifully written essays, which puts Adrian Favell's trademark iconoclasm, crackling wit, and deep learning on clear display. Spanning the field and engaging with the controversies stirring scholarly waters on both sides of the Atlantic, Immigration, Integration and Mobility both reviews and sets the agendas for migration researchers. A volume that students and scholars will ponder and savour. -- Roger Waldinger, University of California, Los Angeles

Adrian Favell is not only the sharpest critic of European migration studies but also a pioneer who takes transnationalism and transdisciplinarity seriously in his own work. The ten essays in this book are a 'best of' selection representative of Favell's interventions - A critical mirror for a booming research field still struggling to understand its topic - Indispensable reading. -- Rainer Baubock, European University Institute

This book takes us through several decades of migration debates, while remembering that at the heart of questions of migration are issues of differences in wealth, power, opportunity and futures - Provides much-needed critical perspectives on mainstream migration scholarship that has consistently failed to shed the blinkers of methodological nationalism. -- Nina Glick Schiller, University of Manchester

Adrian Favell is a maverick. His work is always interesting, pushing the boundaries of 'normal' social science and expanding our knowledge of human mobility in all its dimensions - A collection of his most provocative essays, sure to top the reading list of every serious scholar of migration. -- James F Hollifield, Southern Methodist University

Adrian Favell is Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, Paris. He is the author of Philosophies of Integration: Immigration and the Idea of Citizenship in France and Britain (1998), The Human Face of Global Mobility: International Highly Skilled Migration in Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific (edited with Michael Peter Smith, 2006), Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe (2008), and Before and After Superflat: A Short History of Japanese Contemporary Art 1990‒2011 (2012)